Guinea: Cloudy Days in Conakry

Like the boy who cried "Wolf!" Guinea's
Marxist President Sékou Touré has called for help in fighting off
invasions or coups so many times that people scarcely listen to him any
more. Once it was a cabal of teachers and trade unionists from within
Guinea. Another time it was a plot against Guinea launched by Ivory
Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a longtime Touré enemy. There
was an authentic assassination attempt by a knife-wielding Guinean in
1969, but the young fanatic bungled the job, and was lynched by an
angry crowd before he...